The sed that didn't stick
A failing nightly backup, a sed hotfix that worked once, and the next morning's cron that failed anyway. Node's require cache had eaten my patch.
The day I realised I had never tested a production backup
I had been running test-backup drills for months and felt covered. But I had never pulled a real production snapshot into a lab and restored it. The afternoon I finally did is the story behind this post.
Building backupctl: what it took to replace a cron job with a backup service
How a cron-and-restic setup outgrew itself, and the NestJS backup service I built to replace it — with two war stories I didn't see coming.